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Earlier, a company representative was quoted in De Volkskrant saying Huawei complied with all laws in every country where it operates, and “keeps the door closed to governments or others who want to use our network for activities that would threaten cybersecurity”.

AIVD said it would not comment on the report, but in April the agency said it was “undesirable for the Netherlands … to depend on the hardware or software of companies from countries running active cyber programmes against Dutch interests”, naming China and Russia.

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1/50 16 May 2019

Spectators watch as riders take the start of stage six of the 102nd Giro d’Italia, Tour of Italy, race, 238kms from Cassino to San Giovanni Rotondo

AFP/Getty

2/50 15 May 2019

Buildings in Hung Hom district are shrouded in coastal fog in Hong Kong, China. In springtime, Hong Kong is affected by alternate cold and warm air. As cold air from the north recedes, warm and humid air comes in from the sea and as the water near the coast is still rather cold, the warm and humid air may be cooled sufficiently by the underlying cold water

EPA

3/50 14 May 2019

An Indian worker packs mangos for sale at a wholesale fruit market in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir. Mango is regarded as the national fruit of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines. India is one of the leading producers of tropical and subtropical fruits in the world and is said to be the world’s largest mango producer

EPA

4/50 13 May 2019

A nurse carries a newborn baby after a fire broke out on the terrace of a children’s hospital building in Ahmedabad, India

Reuters

5/50 12 May 2019

Members of the action group Extinction Rebellion hold banners in front of the Eiffel Tower after spilling fake blood on the Trocadero esplanade during a demonstration to alert on the state of decline of biodiversity, in Paris. Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse

AFP/Getty

6/50 11 May 2019

An armed police officer greets members of the Muslim community in front of Al Noor mosque as they arrive for the iftar, the evening meal, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Muslims around the world are observing the holiest month of Ramadan, fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month. Ramadan this year will be slightly sombre for New Zealand Muslims – especially those in Christchurch – in the wake of the mosque terror attacks where 51 people died after a gunman opened fire during Friday prayers at Linwood and Al Noor Mosques on March 15

Getty

7/50 10 May 2019

Muslims perform prayers on a road outside a mosque on the first Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar

Reuters

8/50 9 May 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets people after posing for a family photo during the informal meeting of European Union leaders in Sibiu, Romania

Reuters

9/50 8 May 2019

Smokes rises after a huge explosion near the offices of the attorney general in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two police officials say Wednesday’s explosion was followed by a gunbattle between militants and security forces

AP

10/50 7 May 2019

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo wave as they walk to Insein prison gate as they were freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar

Reuters

11/50 6 May 2019

Students sit in circles as they read the Koran on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights

12/50 5 May 2019

13/50 4 May 2019

Demonstrators wearing bees masks and costumes lie on the ground during a demonstration for biodiversity called by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Paris.

AFP/Getty Images

14/50 3 May 2019

Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the women’s 800m at the IAAF Diamond League competition in Doha

AFP/Getty

15/50 2 May 2019

Children chant slogans as they watch a demonstration outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. Crowds of Sudanese protesters began converging in Khartoum for a “million-strong” march to press for a civilian administration after talks with military rulers ran into trouble

AFP/Getty

16/50 1 May 2019

People hold blue, white and red smoke bombs as they demonstrate to mark May Day in Toulouse. France’s zero-tolerance approach to protest violence will be tested, when a mix of labour unionists, “yellow vest” demonstrators and hardline hooligans are expected to hit the streets on Labour Day

AFP/Getty

17/50

Opponents to Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro face off with Bolivarian National Guards in armored vehicles, loyal to the president, during an attempted military uprising in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition leader Juan Guaido took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops in a call for the military to rise up and oust Madur

AP

18/50 29 April 2019

In this aereal view officials measure a giant teddy bear measuring more than 20 meters long and 4 tons of weight, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind in Xonacatlan, Mexico state.

AFP/Getty Images

19/50 28 April 2019

Competitors ride their bikes along sand dunes during the Stage 1 of the 14th edition of Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco

AFP/Getty

20/50 27 April 2019

Greenpeace activists hold banners reading “Climate urgency: Think, vote, act” on top of the Columbus (Colon) Monument in Barcelona on April 27, 2019 as part of an awareness campaign on the eve of Spain’s general elections. – Spain returns to the polls on April 28 for unpredictable snap elections marked by the resurgence of the far-right after more than four decades on the outer margins of politics.

AFP/Getty

21/50 26 April 2019

A security officer stands guard outside St. Anthony’s Shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Reuters

22/50 25 April 2019

Palestinian beekeepers inspect beehives at the honey-bee farm in the east of Khan Younis town, near the border with Israel, southern Gaza Strip. The beekeepers collect honey and wax from beehives at this time of this year

EPA

23/50 24 April 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a Russian honor guard after arriving at a railway station in Vladivostok, for the summit to be held with Russian President Vladimir Putin

EPA

24/50 23 April 2019

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he holds the granddaughter of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah after he arrives to cast his vote at a polling station during the third phase of general election in Ahmedabad

Reuters

25/50 22 April 2019

A woman living near St Anthony’s shrine runs for safety with her baby after police found explosive devices in a parked vehicle in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Bombings on Easter Sunday ripped through churches and luxury hotels killing at least 290 people

AP

26/50 21 April 2019

Police and security personnel stand guard outside the Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lankan capital Colombo after a bombing attack; one of eight across the country on Easter Sunday

EPA

27/50 20 April 2019

A protester walks amid tear gas deployed by security services on the 23rd week of Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris

Getty

28/50 19 April 2019

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leaven in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem

Reuters

29/50 18 April 2019

Christian worshippers take part in the procession of the holy Thursday, during the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony on Easter Holy Week, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s old city

EPA

30/50 17 April 2019

A young girl runs past UWSA military contingents before a parade held to mark the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar. Wa declared itself as an independent State on 17 April 1989. Although the government of Myanmar does not recognize the sovereignty of Wa State, Myanmar military has adopted a ceasefire with the state since 9 May 1989. Wa State has been notorious for drug smuggling in the Golden Triangle of the last 30 years, although it declared its region a drug-free zone in 2005

EPA

31/50 16 April 2019

Firefighters spray water as they work to extinguish the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The huge blaze that devastated the cathedral is “under control”, the Paris fire brigade said early on April 16 after firefighters spent hours battling the flames

AFP/Getty

32/50 15 April 2019

Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris

AFP/Getty

33/50 14 April 2019

Indonesian soldiers and police at a general security roll call for the upcoming general elections in Jakarta. Some 192 million Indonesians are set to cast a ballot in the world’s third-biggest democracy, with a record 245,000 candidates vying for positions from the presidency and parliamentary seats all the way down to local council jobs

AFP/Getty

34/50 13 April 2019

Hindu devotees throw holy flammable powder onto a fire as they perform rituals during Gajan Festival celebrations in Kolkata. The festival falls on the last day of the Bengali calendar which also coincides with the birth of Lord Shiva, according to Hindu mythology

AFP/Getty

35/50 12 April 2019

A woman visits the exhibition ‘Mirrors: In and Out of Reality’ in Barcelona, Spain. Maths, physics and photonics melt in this exhibition presented by Cosmocaixa in which visitors can enter a big kaleidoscope to walk through and experience with the effects and particularities of mirrors. The exhibition will be open to public until 6 June 2019

EPA

36/50 11 April 2019

Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of general election in Alipurduar district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India

Reuters

37/50 10 April 2019

The first ever photo a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes, conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no mater or light can escape

Event Horizon Telescope/National Science Foundation/Reuters

38/50 9 April 2019

Sudanese protesters chant slogans as they rally in front of the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum. Sudan’s police ordered its forces to avoid intervening against protesters as three Western nations threw their weight behind demonstrators’ demands for a political transition plan in the country

AFP/Getty

39/50 8 April 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with a handball given to her by the German Handball Federation’s president as she received the German national handball team at the Chancellery in Berlin

AFP/Getty

40/50 7 April 2019

People hold candles as they attend a night vigil and prayer at the Amahoro Stadium as part of the 25th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda. April 7 begins 100 days of mourning for more than 800,000 people who were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began

AFP/Getty

41/50 6 April 2019

A portion of the field of 1,500 participants begins the trek to the highest point over the Florida Keys Overseas Highway’s longest span during the Seven Mile Bridge Run Saturday. The event features entrants running a course over the convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico and helps to raise funds for local youth athletic programs

AFP/Getty

42/50 5 April 2019

A refugee father and son lie on railway tracks to prevent a train from leaving a station during a protest in Athens, Greece. Dozens of migrants staged a protest in Athens central train station disrupting all railway services in the hope they will be transported to the Greek border and join other refugees attempting to follow a 2016 migration route towards northern Europe

Getty

43/50 4 April 2019

Security agents and police officers hold back migrants during the evacuation of a makeshift camp at Porte de la Chapelle, in the north of Paris. More than 300 migrants and refugees were evacuated on early April 4 from a makeshift camp to accomodation structures

AFP/Getty

44/50 3 April 2019

An Alexandra township resident gestures and they part is clashes with the Johannesburg Metro Police, South Africa during a total shutdown of the township due to protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance

AFP/Getty

45/50 2 April 2019

Children eat next to the debris of damaged homes at Purainiya village in Nepal’s southern Bara district near Birgunj, following a rare spring storm. The freak storm tore down houses and overturned cars and trucks as it swept across southern Nepal killing at least 27 people and leaving more than 600 injured

AFP/Getty

46/50 1 April 2019

A forensic expert works next to the remains of a small plane that crashed near Erzhausen, Germany. Natalia Fileva, chairwoman and co-owner of Russia’s second largest airline S7, died when a private jet she was in crashed near Frankfurt on Sunday, the company said

Reuters

47/50 31 March 2019

Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers a speech following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine

Reuters

48/50 30 March 2019

Catalan pro-independence protesters throw rocks during a counter-demonstration against a protest called by Spanish far-right party Vox against the Catalan independence push in Barcelona. Polls suggest Vox, which campaigns against illegal immigration and “radical” feminism, will become the first far-right party to win seats in the Spanish parliament since the late 70s and could emerge as a kingmaker in Spain’s increasingly fragmented political landscape

AFP/Getty

49/50 29 March 2019

Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika continue in Algeria despite the announcement on 11 March that he will not run for a fifth Presidential term and postponement of presidential elections previously scheduled for 18 April 2019 until further notice

EPA

50/50 28 March 2019

Firefighters on ladders work to extinguish a blaze in an office building in Dhaka after a huge fire tore through it, killing at least five people with many others feared trapped in the latest major fire to hit the Bangladesh capital

AFP/Getty

1/50 16 May 2019

Spectators watch as riders take the start of stage six of the 102nd Giro d’Italia, Tour of Italy, race, 238kms from Cassino to San Giovanni Rotondo

AFP/Getty

2/50 15 May 2019

Buildings in Hung Hom district are shrouded in coastal fog in Hong Kong, China. In springtime, Hong Kong is affected by alternate cold and warm air. As cold air from the north recedes, warm and humid air comes in from the sea and as the water near the coast is still rather cold, the warm and humid air may be cooled sufficiently by the underlying cold water

EPA

3/50 14 May 2019

An Indian worker packs mangos for sale at a wholesale fruit market in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir. Mango is regarded as the national fruit of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines. India is one of the leading producers of tropical and subtropical fruits in the world and is said to be the world’s largest mango producer

EPA

4/50 13 May 2019

A nurse carries a newborn baby after a fire broke out on the terrace of a children’s hospital building in Ahmedabad, India

Reuters

5/50 12 May 2019

Members of the action group Extinction Rebellion hold banners in front of the Eiffel Tower after spilling fake blood on the Trocadero esplanade during a demonstration to alert on the state of decline of biodiversity, in Paris. Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse

AFP/Getty

6/50 11 May 2019

An armed police officer greets members of the Muslim community in front of Al Noor mosque as they arrive for the iftar, the evening meal, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Muslims around the world are observing the holiest month of Ramadan, fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month. Ramadan this year will be slightly sombre for New Zealand Muslims – especially those in Christchurch – in the wake of the mosque terror attacks where 51 people died after a gunman opened fire during Friday prayers at Linwood and Al Noor Mosques on March 15

Getty

7/50 10 May 2019

Muslims perform prayers on a road outside a mosque on the first Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar

Reuters

8/50 9 May 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets people after posing for a family photo during the informal meeting of European Union leaders in Sibiu, Romania

Reuters

9/50 8 May 2019

Smokes rises after a huge explosion near the offices of the attorney general in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two police officials say Wednesday’s explosion was followed by a gunbattle between militants and security forces

AP

10/50 7 May 2019

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo wave as they walk to Insein prison gate as they were freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar

Reuters

11/50 6 May 2019

Students sit in circles as they read the Koran on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights

12/50 5 May 2019

13/50 4 May 2019

Demonstrators wearing bees masks and costumes lie on the ground during a demonstration for biodiversity called by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Paris.

AFP/Getty Images

14/50 3 May 2019

Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the women’s 800m at the IAAF Diamond League competition in Doha

AFP/Getty

15/50 2 May 2019

Children chant slogans as they watch a demonstration outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. Crowds of Sudanese protesters began converging in Khartoum for a “million-strong” march to press for a civilian administration after talks with military rulers ran into trouble

AFP/Getty

16/50 1 May 2019

People hold blue, white and red smoke bombs as they demonstrate to mark May Day in Toulouse. France’s zero-tolerance approach to protest violence will be tested, when a mix of labour unionists, “yellow vest” demonstrators and hardline hooligans are expected to hit the streets on Labour Day

AFP/Getty

17/50

Opponents to Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro face off with Bolivarian National Guards in armored vehicles, loyal to the president, during an attempted military uprising in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition leader Juan Guaido took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops in a call for the military to rise up and oust Madur

AP

18/50 29 April 2019

In this aereal view officials measure a giant teddy bear measuring more than 20 meters long and 4 tons of weight, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind in Xonacatlan, Mexico state.

AFP/Getty Images

19/50 28 April 2019

Competitors ride their bikes along sand dunes during the Stage 1 of the 14th edition of Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco

AFP/Getty

20/50 27 April 2019

Greenpeace activists hold banners reading “Climate urgency: Think, vote, act” on top of the Columbus (Colon) Monument in Barcelona on April 27, 2019 as part of an awareness campaign on the eve of Spain’s general elections. – Spain returns to the polls on April 28 for unpredictable snap elections marked by the resurgence of the far-right after more than four decades on the outer margins of politics.

AFP/Getty

21/50 26 April 2019

A security officer stands guard outside St. Anthony’s Shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Reuters

22/50 25 April 2019

Palestinian beekeepers inspect beehives at the honey-bee farm in the east of Khan Younis town, near the border with Israel, southern Gaza Strip. The beekeepers collect honey and wax from beehives at this time of this year

EPA

23/50 24 April 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a Russian honor guard after arriving at a railway station in Vladivostok, for the summit to be held with Russian President Vladimir Putin

EPA

24/50 23 April 2019

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he holds the granddaughter of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah after he arrives to cast his vote at a polling station during the third phase of general election in Ahmedabad

Reuters

25/50 22 April 2019

A woman living near St Anthony’s shrine runs for safety with her baby after police found explosive devices in a parked vehicle in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Bombings on Easter Sunday ripped through churches and luxury hotels killing at least 290 people

AP

26/50 21 April 2019

Police and security personnel stand guard outside the Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lankan capital Colombo after a bombing attack; one of eight across the country on Easter Sunday

EPA

27/50 20 April 2019

A protester walks amid tear gas deployed by security services on the 23rd week of Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris

Getty

28/50 19 April 2019

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leaven in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem

Reuters

29/50 18 April 2019

Christian worshippers take part in the procession of the holy Thursday, during the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony on Easter Holy Week, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s old city

EPA

30/50 17 April 2019

A young girl runs past UWSA military contingents before a parade held to mark the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar. Wa declared itself as an independent State on 17 April 1989. Although the government of Myanmar does not recognize the sovereignty of Wa State, Myanmar military has adopted a ceasefire with the state since 9 May 1989. Wa State has been notorious for drug smuggling in the Golden Triangle of the last 30 years, although it declared its region a drug-free zone in 2005

EPA

31/50 16 April 2019

Firefighters spray water as they work to extinguish the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The huge blaze that devastated the cathedral is “under control”, the Paris fire brigade said early on April 16 after firefighters spent hours battling the flames

AFP/Getty

32/50 15 April 2019

Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris

AFP/Getty

33/50 14 April 2019

Indonesian soldiers and police at a general security roll call for the upcoming general elections in Jakarta. Some 192 million Indonesians are set to cast a ballot in the world’s third-biggest democracy, with a record 245,000 candidates vying for positions from the presidency and parliamentary seats all the way down to local council jobs

AFP/Getty

34/50 13 April 2019

Hindu devotees throw holy flammable powder onto a fire as they perform rituals during Gajan Festival celebrations in Kolkata. The festival falls on the last day of the Bengali calendar which also coincides with the birth of Lord Shiva, according to Hindu mythology

AFP/Getty

35/50 12 April 2019

A woman visits the exhibition ‘Mirrors: In and Out of Reality’ in Barcelona, Spain. Maths, physics and photonics melt in this exhibition presented by Cosmocaixa in which visitors can enter a big kaleidoscope to walk through and experience with the effects and particularities of mirrors. The exhibition will be open to public until 6 June 2019

EPA

36/50 11 April 2019

Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of general election in Alipurduar district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India

Reuters

37/50 10 April 2019

The first ever photo a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes, conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no mater or light can escape

Event Horizon Telescope/National Science Foundation/Reuters

38/50 9 April 2019

Sudanese protesters chant slogans as they rally in front of the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum. Sudan’s police ordered its forces to avoid intervening against protesters as three Western nations threw their weight behind demonstrators’ demands for a political transition plan in the country

AFP/Getty

39/50 8 April 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with a handball given to her by the German Handball Federation’s president as she received the German national handball team at the Chancellery in Berlin

AFP/Getty

40/50 7 April 2019

People hold candles as they attend a night vigil and prayer at the Amahoro Stadium as part of the 25th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda. April 7 begins 100 days of mourning for more than 800,000 people who were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began

AFP/Getty

41/50 6 April 2019

A portion of the field of 1,500 participants begins the trek to the highest point over the Florida Keys Overseas Highway’s longest span during the Seven Mile Bridge Run Saturday. The event features entrants running a course over the convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico and helps to raise funds for local youth athletic programs

AFP/Getty

42/50 5 April 2019

A refugee father and son lie on railway tracks to prevent a train from leaving a station during a protest in Athens, Greece. Dozens of migrants staged a protest in Athens central train station disrupting all railway services in the hope they will be transported to the Greek border and join other refugees attempting to follow a 2016 migration route towards northern Europe

Getty

43/50 4 April 2019

Security agents and police officers hold back migrants during the evacuation of a makeshift camp at Porte de la Chapelle, in the north of Paris. More than 300 migrants and refugees were evacuated on early April 4 from a makeshift camp to accomodation structures

AFP/Getty

44/50 3 April 2019

An Alexandra township resident gestures and they part is clashes with the Johannesburg Metro Police, South Africa during a total shutdown of the township due to protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance

AFP/Getty

45/50 2 April 2019

Children eat next to the debris of damaged homes at Purainiya village in Nepal’s southern Bara district near Birgunj, following a rare spring storm. The freak storm tore down houses and overturned cars and trucks as it swept across southern Nepal killing at least 27 people and leaving more than 600 injured

AFP/Getty

46/50 1 April 2019

A forensic expert works next to the remains of a small plane that crashed near Erzhausen, Germany. Natalia Fileva, chairwoman and co-owner of Russia’s second largest airline S7, died when a private jet she was in crashed near Frankfurt on Sunday, the company said

Reuters

47/50 31 March 2019

Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers a speech following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine

Reuters

48/50 30 March 2019

Catalan pro-independence protesters throw rocks during a counter-demonstration against a protest called by Spanish far-right party Vox against the Catalan independence push in Barcelona. Polls suggest Vox, which campaigns against illegal immigration and “radical” feminism, will become the first far-right party to win seats in the Spanish parliament since the late 70s and could emerge as a kingmaker in Spain’s increasingly fragmented political landscape

AFP/Getty

49/50 29 March 2019

Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika continue in Algeria despite the announcement on 11 March that he will not run for a fifth Presidential term and postponement of presidential elections previously scheduled for 18 April 2019 until further notice

EPA

50/50 28 March 2019

Firefighters on ladders work to extinguish a blaze in an office building in Dhaka after a huge fire tore through it, killing at least five people with many others feared trapped in the latest major fire to hit the Bangladesh capital

AFP/Getty

Of the three large Dutch telecommunications companies, KPN and VodafoneZiggo declined to comment on the report, while T-Mobile/Tele2 said it was not aware of any AIVD investigation.

The Volkskrant story did not contain details of whether the alleged “backdoor” was hardware or software, how it works, or whether it has actually been used.

The report was published a day after US president Donald Trump banned Huawei from buying vital US technology without special approval, effectively barring its equipment from US telecoms networks on national security grounds.

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The British government, which has agreed to allow Huawei a restricted role in building parts of its 5G network, said it was reviewing its policy on 5G in light of Washington’s sanctions.

When asked whether the government would reconsider Huawei, a spokesman for prime minister Theresa May said: “As you know, in relation to Huawei, we are reviewing the right policy approach for 5G and when an announcement is ready the culture secretary will update parliament.”

“We are committed to ensuring that UK telecoms networks are fully secure and any decision will be supported by a hard-headed, technically informed assessment of the risk.”

Earlier this week a former MI6 chief warned that allowing Huawei to have a role in building the UK’s 5G network would pose an unnecessary risk to national security.

Sir Richard Dearlove said using Huawei equipment could place the Chinese government in a “potentially advantageous exploitative position” in the UK’s future telecoms network.

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Details of a National Security Council meeting, in which Ms May was said to have overridden ministers who had expressed concerns about giving Huawei a UK role, which leaked last month led to the sacking of defence secretary Gavin Williamson.